New architecture book highlights community’s connection to its treasures – The Republic News

McCoy, a college journalism major, writes in the foreword partly about the book’s scenery, if you will.

“Baan wants to show Columbus as a living place you can access, a place where you might imagine yourself visiting or living. His images are so true that the people who have spent their lives there would think they just saw the scenes he depicts yesterday.“He also loves to see the buildings from the air to provide a lens on how the buildings fit into the context of the city and surrounding landscapes … .

”The Wall Street Journal has called Baan “the most wanted photographer in architecture.” He also was named one of the 100 most influential people in contemporary architecture world by the magazine Il Magazine dell’Architettura on occasion of its 100th issue.Baan, who jetted from Indiana to such far-flung locales as Korea and Spain in between book shoots, hopes readers see the unusual nature of Columbus amid the backdrop of the everyday.

“I was interested to discover an ‘ordinary’ Midwestern city with extraordinary architecture,” Baan said by email. “It’s been incredibly refreshing to see such an industrial town where architecture played a seminal role in all aspects of living, working and recreating, how a bold idea from more than half a century ago still works to make a city livable.“It was really wonderful to see how these buildings have aged, are used and are a backdrop of everyday life.”

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